If you haven’t read Sedalia, Indiana, now’s the time. The Ebook is on sale for $0.99 Oct. 30 through Nov. 3. It’s a book of connected short stories about the characters in Sedalia, Indiana, mythical seat of mythical Howarth County, “not far north of the Ohio River.”

Besides being cheap and then entertaining you for a few hours, Sedalia lays the groundwork for Vengeance, a thriller also set in Sedalia, with some of the same characters. Big, easy-going Sheriff Earl (Tip) Tungate is the main one, and finds himself faced with a series of seemingly unconnected and senseless murders. In the end, he prevails mainly through old-fashioned grit.

Kirkus Reviews said . . . “Tungate is a brilliantly constructed character. Neither valiant paragon of virtue nor deeply flawed antihero, he is rather a somewhat out-of-shape Everyman, who, like some Midwestern Columbo, craftily allows people to underestimate him.”

Here are the books:

Sedalia, Indiana
Vengeance